On the weekend I got this email from Ebates saying I should make a purchase soon to claim my Walmart $10 gift card. I decided to go looking at the stores from which they offer rebates and decided to purchase a subscription to the Canadian Chatelaine magazine to which I have previously subscribed in the past. (I will get a $2.99 cash rebate from the purchase!) It seems I will get a free wristwatch with the subscription and it also entitled me to a free digital subscription on the Ipad. We have an Ipad in the house, so I decided to download the Chatelaine app (with my son's help) so I could receive the online subscription. It is no extra cost with a paper subscription. I just had to ask K not to tap so fast through all the options to ensure I didn't end up paying twice for the subscription and so I could see what he was doing.
I've been wanting to do something like this for awhile so it was fun browsing the magazine on the Ipad. There was an advertisement for a new Disney Oz movie and wouldn't you know, I was able to play the trailer from the digital magazine ad! Then I got to the recipe section and it was showing me before and after photos of the food as I rested on the page! So I'd be looking at a raw steak, then it would show me the cooked steak! I could press a certain spot on the screen to toggle between the images. At the end of the day, I am still more comfortable with a paper magazine, and my copy should arrive in some weeks. But of course, I was able to browse the online magazine the day I bought the subscription. It was fun.
Here is some chicken pot pie I bought from Costco the other day. It's a winner. It's the Costco Kirkland brand I think, it came unfrozen, about 10 inches wide and you bake it for about 40 minutes. It had lots of large pieces of chicken breast inside.
My son K has been playing with the Instagram social photo network. He took a photo of the beautiful Transformer actress Megan Fox and posted it. He tagged her in it (via a hashtag similar to Twitter) and she (or her staff) actually 'liked' the photo! So did her magazine. He was thrilled. These days you can be in touch with the whole world from your computer, as with blogging of course.
I've been wanting to do something like this for awhile so it was fun browsing the magazine on the Ipad. There was an advertisement for a new Disney Oz movie and wouldn't you know, I was able to play the trailer from the digital magazine ad! Then I got to the recipe section and it was showing me before and after photos of the food as I rested on the page! So I'd be looking at a raw steak, then it would show me the cooked steak! I could press a certain spot on the screen to toggle between the images. At the end of the day, I am still more comfortable with a paper magazine, and my copy should arrive in some weeks. But of course, I was able to browse the online magazine the day I bought the subscription. It was fun.
Here is some chicken pot pie I bought from Costco the other day. It's a winner. It's the Costco Kirkland brand I think, it came unfrozen, about 10 inches wide and you bake it for about 40 minutes. It had lots of large pieces of chicken breast inside.
